Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous…

James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.

— David Cross

There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered mediocre people running corporate America Their judgments and misjudgments have made me rich.

— Joseph D Jamail Jr

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because…

— Helen Mirren

“A pompous, arrogant, narcissistic intellectual came up to me at a conference and said rather boastfully. "You must feel really good about yourself to…

— Abhijit Naskar

Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.

— Jean Rhys

“The army is at once the worst place for egoists, and the best.”

— Anthony Powell

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness…

— Jules Renard

'Actually I don't understand people who want to kill themselves. Ones got to have the courage to live. They are cowards. Narcitics egoists, who…

— Suicide Room

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in…

— Georges Bernanos

“Rejoicing in his absolute authority, the single egoist will exploit it methodically, whereas a mêlée of egoists will bring about a ruinous disorder and…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

— F. Sionil Jose

“thus it is that egoists have always the last word; having posited at the start that their resolution is unshakeable, the more susceptible the…

— Marcel Proust

Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined…

— Nayef Al-Rodhan

All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some…

— Andrew Vachss